a winch

technology! you lovable dear,
thank you for everything,
you are anything, including us,
we are grateful,
as abstractions go
you have treated us well
as well as we deserve
you could have left us
in that well
but you turned
and the bucket
and the rope
took us back to the top
where we could bask
in the light of the orb
that perhaps we made
so that our grandchildren's grandchildren
might love you ever better